Yes, my suggestion has short lines for the directions the piece can move one square; long lines for directions where the piece can move one or two squares to.

Now, I think there are Shogi variants with pieces that may move (as opposed to jump) two squares in a direction, but not one square. We'd need something else if Fencer would ever implement such a Shogi variant.

portugal: One way to show the Eagle: arrows up-left, up-right, down. short lines up, right, left. longer lines down-left and down-right.

This is closest to how the current Shogi/MiniShogi pieces are: straight arrows for slides, curved arrows for jumps, lines for steps. (Mini)Shogi doesn't have pieces that can step two places though, hence the short/long lines.

Alternatively, I'd settle for images of falcons, geese, quails, eagles, cranes, swallows and phoenixes.

jadarite: I would prefer pieces that indicate movement, just as currently with Shogi and MiniShogi. On chessvariants, I've seen pieces that uses dots and arrows to indicate movement (arrows for rook and bishop like moves, different coloured dots for moving/jumping one or two spaces in the indicated diretion).

jadarite: Barter the pieces for a two-year rook membership. ;-)

Just curious, why is the full sized game called "Japanese Chess", while the small version is called "Minishogi". Wouldn't it be more consistent if they both either used "Japanse chess" or "Shogi" in their name?

Fencer: Tai Shogi will make Anti-Backgammon look like a quick game. But Tai Shogi is still smaller than Taikyoku Shogi, played with 402 pieces each (208 different pieces), on a 36x36 board. The piece names of Taikyoku Shogi sound impressive: Drunk Elephant, Soaring Eagle, Burning General, Great Dragon, Heavenly Tetarch King, Swooping Owl, Old Monkey, Flying Cock, Phoenix Master, etc, etc.

There's a Perl module available with the initial setup and movement of the pieces.

playBunny: <tt> is HTML for 'teletype', a way of indicating something is computer input or output. It's typically rendered in a fixed width font. But it seems <tt> isn't in a short list of allowable HTML elements we can use here.

Fencer: Shog variants page on Wikipedia.

Fencer: Anti-Shogi, Extinguish Shogi, ???-Relay Shogi, Atomic Shogi, Cylinder Shogi, ... <tt>;-)</tt>